Here's a chance to nurture the starved creative voice inside you. Art classes are starting at Finer Frames. Professional teaching artists share their experience in small & supportive classes. (We promise we won't make fun of your stick-figure drawings)
Spring & summer classes for youth and adults are listed below.
CLASSES FOR KIDS
Discovering Creativity (ages 5-10) 9:30 - Noon, Monday 3/29 - Friday 4/2 Young artists have fun exploring formal art elements while building skills in drawing, painting, and mixed media. Lessons combine two-dimensional art media and techniques with art history. Taught by Juanita Pond $55
Teen Academy Saturday Class (ages 13-17) 1:00 - 4:00pm 4/24 or 5/22
Saturday classes at Finer Frames provides innovative visual-arts education to children who want to be creative in their free time. Sarah Crawford, provides hands-on instruction in drawing and painting techniques to beginners while advanced students work independently with instructor guidance. Teen artists, ages 13 & up can expect to have their artistic sensibilities valued and encouraged in exciting ways. Class size is limited to 6 students. Instructor: Sarah Crawford $45
Youth Academy Saturday Class (ages 6-12) 1:00 - 4:00pm 5/8 or 6/19Saturday classes at Finer Frames provides innovative visual-arts education to children who want to be creative in their free time. Sarah Crawford, provides hands-on instruction in drawing and painting techniques to beginners while advanced students work independently with instructor guidance. Young artists, ages 8 & up can expect to have their artistic sensibilities valued and encouraged in exciting ways. Class size is limited to 6 students. Instructor: Sarah Crawford $45Drawing for Comic Books (ages 10-17) Saturday 7/17 and 8/14Learn the tools of the trade of comic book drawing, from story and layout to penciling and inking with pen, brush, and marker, as well as strategies for creating gag cartoons and comic strips. Draw the human figure for comics, graphic novels and animation with emphasis on anatomy, proportion, invention and expression. Basic drawing experience recommended. Taught by Sarah Crawford $45Intro to Drawing (Grades 1st - 3rd) Monday, 5/3 or 5/24Professional artist Linda Aman introduces young artists to the art of drawing. This session, created for home-school students, focuses on new skills in pencil and pen drawing. Linda works to ensure each student excels in discovering their talent. All Materials are included. $30Intro to Drawing (Grades 4th - 8th) Monday, 5/3 or 5/24Professional artist Linda Aman introduces young artists to the art of drawing. This session, created for home-school students, focuses on new skills in pencil and pen drawing. Linda works to ensure each student excels in discovering their talent. All Materials are included. $30Intro to Drawing (Grades 6th - 12th) Monday, 5/3 or 5/24Professional artist Linda Aman introduces young artists to the art of drawing. This session focuses on learning new skills in pencil and pen drawing. Linda works to ensure each student excels in discovering their talent. All Materials are included. $30Exploring Art for Youth (Grades 1st - 3rd) Monday 6/21 & 28 or 7/12 & 19Linda Aman teaches a variety of art mediums in the dynamic series that introduces students to contemporary media. The first 2 lessons focus on learning the skills of block printing. The last 2 classes focus on learning the techniques of drawing and watercolor painting. Linda works to ensure each student experiences a wide variety of subjects which allow them to discover projects where they personally excel. All materials are included. $135Exploring Art for Youth (Grades 4th - 6th) Monday 6/21 & 28 or 7/12 & 19Linda Aman teaches a variety of art mediums in the dynamic series that introduces students to contemporary media. The first 2 lessons focus on learning the skills of block printing. The last 2 classes focus on learning the techniques of encaustic painting with wax. Linda works to ensure each student experiences a wide variety of subjects which allow them to discover projects where they personally excel. All materials are included. $140Exploring Art for Teens (Grades 6th - 12th) Monday 6/21 & 28 or 7/12 & 19Linda Aman teaches a variety of art mediums in the dynamic series that introduces students to contemporary media. The first 2 lessons focus on learning the skills of block printing. The last 2 classes focus on learning the techniques of encaustic painting with wax. Linda works to ensure each student experiences a wide variety of subjects which allow them to discover projects where they personally excel. All materials are included. $140CLASSES FOR ADULTS (Ages 16+)
Drawing for Painters Monday 3/22 - Tuesday 3/23 - 9:00am - Noon Improve your painting by learning drawing skills practiced by the masters. Learn how to avoid the most common drawing mistakes new painters make while discovering techniques for improving proportions, perspective, shading and design. Joyce brings her terrific sense of humor and provides useful critique for improving your painting while encouraging development of your own personal style. Joyce Green $75Awash in Watercolor Wednesday, 3/24 through Friday, 3/26 - 9:00 am - NoonSo you think painting watercolor is tough? Learn Joyce's solutions for building a compelling painting. In this follow-up to "Drawing for Painters", you'll study design, composition, the structure of a painting, glazing and helpful techniques for creating textural affects. Bring a passion for painting and your own photos for reference. Joyce Green $125Capturing the Light in Floral Still Life Monday April 26 - 10:00 am - 3:00 pmCreate stronger paintings by gaining a better understanding of how to produce and use dramatic light effects. Included in the workshop are ways to improve backgrounds, edges and composition, all of which contribute to the mood of the painting and the emotional response of the viewer. Learn Tricia's ways of creating drama through contrast and variety of colors and textures. Multiple still life arrangements will be provided. As a successful professional, Tricia's work can be found in many personal and corporate collections and in the book "100 Ways to Paint Still Life and Floral". Tricia May $65 Learning to Paint What you See Mondays in June 6/7, 14 & 28 - 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
This series of intensive study is aimed at helping the artist to see first then learn to translate the subject into the medium of paint. Seeing the end, knowing what you are after and how, will determine the way you travel there. Making a clear statement and defining your intentions comes from a solid foundation of the basic vocabulary of painting. How the principles of light work to create value and color relationships, edges, gradations and three-dimensional forms are some areas of study where we will work hard. Once the artist has a grasp of the foundational aspects of painting, they will find a freedom that allows for a clear communication and an open path to creating. Oil Painting (acrylic accepted). Mark Davis $99Interpreting a Photo – Oil Painting Workshop Sat May 15 or Sat July 10 - 10:00 am - 4:00 pmA photograph that has been 'copied' will never have a chance of becoming much of a real painting. Even the best photo reference will distort sizes and change the colors and value of everything in your subject. We will show you how to use the photo reference as a visual guide and how to give your paintings a sense of light. Some painting experience suggested. Acrylic and watercolor painters welcome. Mark Davis $75The Dynamics of Light-Filled Landscape Painting Mon 5/3, 10, 17 & 24 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
A photograph that has been 'copied' will never have a chance of becoming much of a real painting. Even the best photo reference will distort sizes and change the colors and value of everything in your subject. We will show you how to use the photo reference as a visual guide and how to give your paintings a sense of light. Some painting experience suggested. Acrylic and watercolor painters welcome. Mark Davis 99Composition for Landscape Painting Mon 7/12, 19 & 26 or Mon 8/2, 9 & 16 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm You will learn the rules of composition used by professional landscape painters, while examining compositional basics including balance and natural composition as they apply to still life, figure and landscape painting. Mark will demonstrate cropping and framing using photo reference and a view finder for painting plein air. We will discuss how color and value effect composition, and review common mistakes made in landscape painting. Emphasis will be placed on helping students develop their own unique styles while incorporating the basic principles of composition as they paint along with the instructor. Mark Davis $75To register call 208-888-9898 or email
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Finer Frames is making a change. I'm moving out of the retail store in Meridian and going on the road with mobile picture framing.
High School Sweethearts
carving in the side of the frame. I carved the lovebird's initials into the black wood frame. It was perfect!!!
Perserving family heirlooms is by far our most honored activity. However, framing these family treasures can be our biggest challenge. Meet Miss Maria. The life-sized shadowbox houses a beautifully restored clothing sewn by client's great-great grandmother. Dozens of photographs tell of Maria's family history and decorate the sides of the frame. 
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